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In 1974, the bioethicist and physician Willard Gaylin published an article in Harper’s with the unsettling title “Harvesting the Dead.” It had recently become possible to keep brain-dead patients on life support for extended periods so that their organs could be removed for transplantation. I use the words patients and life support, but as Gaylin pointed out, if a patient is brain-dead, it isn’t really a patient anymore. It is a cadaver on a ventilator. To distinguish these kinds of cadavers fro
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